[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-installer v3 5/7] common: add more descriptive errors for invalid network configs

[Christoph Heiss]

On Thu Jun 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM CEST, Michael Köppl wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Michael Köppl <m.koeppl at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  proxmox-installer-common/src/utils.rs | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/proxmox-installer-common/src/utils.rs b/proxmox-installer-common/src/utils.rs
> index 8adcec0..1fe6a74 100644
> --- a/proxmox-installer-common/src/utils.rs
> +++ b/proxmox-installer-common/src/utils.rs
> @@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ pub enum CidrAddressParseError {
>      InvalidMask(Option<ParseIntError>),
>  }
>
> +impl fmt::Display for CidrAddressParseError {
> +    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
> +        let msg = match &self {
> +            CidrAddressParseError::NoDelimiter => {
> +                String::from("No delimiter for separating address and mask was found")
> +            }
> +            CidrAddressParseError::InvalidAddr(addr_parse_error) => format!("{addr_parse_error}"),
> +            CidrAddressParseError::InvalidMask(parse_int_error) => format!("{:?}", parse_int_error),
> +        };
> +
> +        write!(f, "Invalid CIDR: {msg}")
> +    }
> +}

This implementation is refactored/rewritten in patch #7 to directly use
write!() everywhere - this should already be done here, instead of
implementing it here differently and later rewriting it.

> +
>  /// An IP address (IPv4 or IPv6), including network mask.
>  ///
>  /// See the [`IpAddr`] type for more information how IP addresses are handled.
> @@ -109,8 +123,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for CidrAddress {
>          D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
>      {
>          let s: String = Deserialize::deserialize(deserializer)?;
> -        s.parse()
> -            .map_err(|_| serde::de::Error::custom("invalid CIDR"))
> +        s.parse().map_err(serde::de::Error::custom)
>      }
>  }
>